The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-29
THE NEW RAILROAD
PUSHED ur TO rwELrTA s,rnENr',
In Spite OF u Little Oppoiition from the
Members OF h Board OF Public Works.
Tho Company Expects to Reach Tonth
Street To.morrow-fnturo Plans.

Exaggerated reports were ln%eircula,ion
yesterday regarding some oppooition to
the progreea Of the Wheeling Electrical
Railroad up Main ptroet above Four.
tsenth. The work Of digging up tho sur.
face Of the street wau pushed up to the
Stamm house alley on Sunday, with a
small force Of men, Yesterday the ground
was dug up as far as Twelfth street, a gang
Of over fifty men being employed in dig.
glpg. There were rumors Of objection by
merchants along Main street, but Mr.. A.
@. Ekerter, OF the Railway Company's
Board Of Directors, deniea that there hss
been any objection, Yesterday Street
Superintendent Warden, and Messrs.
schmulbach and Butts, OF the Board OF
Public Works, made come strictures on
tho way in which tho work wau being
prosecuted. They thought the street was
dug up too far ahead Of the track layers,
thus leaving too much OF tho street i'm.
psssible. Mr.. Egsrter, who WAS present
whore the work was going on, explained
that II the digging did not keep ahead Of
the track, tho iorceG Of men would have
to work and rest alternate days, which
would mako the work occupy twice the
tiuis' II otherwise would. He showed q
general permit nigned by Presiden. Myles
and Clerk lancaster, Of tho Board, under
which he claimed the right to push the
work 40 he was, and said il the Board
wantod to embarrass tho company they
should simply order all work stopped.
Tho Boasd showed no disposition to dc
this.
MIR. E9erter told q reporter yesterday
that tho company expected to complete
Ito track to Tenth street by Wednesday
night. Their permit expires December !
by the action OF the ordinance limiting
all street digging to this month. The com.
pany hao made no progress south Of
Twenty.fourth direct, and desires to push
It's track southwark from tho starting
point there as Goon as the northern sec'
ton is completed. Mr.. Egsrter in speak.
ing Of this subject asid that when the
natural gas companies were laying theil
maing, the Board Of Public Works, o!
which he was then a member, recognized
the special character OF tho work and aus,
ponded the operation Of tho ordinance
He hoped the present Board would see its
way clear to do the same in connec,
ton with the electrical railway.
Il could not do any work, o
course, before permission to use
the streets was granted, and he claimed
that the company had made unusually
good progress since that was done. On
Main street south Of the creek the space
between the rails is being paved with
brick. The cobbls stone pavement north
OF the creek will be relaid as soon as the
available force can do 1t. Unless uuses.
sonable weather preyento. IS now eeema
probable, the track will DO done, and the
pavement relaid, to Tenth street inside Of
4 week.
1t will take rapid work, If tho weathe,
permits any work at all, to reach Tenth
street in two dsyu, but the contractor hos
made ON good opurta on tho part al.
ready laid aud may accomplish the re.
naming two squares by Wednesday night.